Dr. Frech and Scope Day

I see Dr. Frech on January 27^th and am feeling all over the place at this point. I have good days and I have bad days but don’t feel awful all of the time. The only thing is that my body can’t seem to decide if the surgical anastomosis is too small or too big at this point.  I sometimes get sick when I eat and sometimes I don’t. At this point, I don’t know if it is the food choices I am making or if something is up with the connection again.  Dr. Frech and I decide to do another scope since one hasn’t been done since the middle of October. I want Dr. Frech to do it before I see Dr. Rasmussen again at the end of the week. We get it all scheduled and you know how scopes go from this point.

My little sister takes me this time. We go to IMC and get all checked in. It only takes 3 pokes to get an IV started. I go back the procedure room and talk to Dr. Frech for a minute and when things are ready to go, I am given the medicine and the world goes black. I wake up and the first thing I do is look at the clock. I can always tell by how long the procedure took on what they found. It was about 10 minutes from the last time I looked at the clock before I was knocked out to when I wake up. This is a perfectly normal scope time. Nothing wrong. Good!

Dr. Frech comes and goes over the results and everything looks great he says. The anastomosis is about 3 cm and is wide open with no inflammation. Great! It seems that the idea of the surgery worked and hopefully things will look up from here. Dr. Frech puts me back on Welchol to help with some symptoms and also wants me to increase my protein shakes to at least 2 a day to stabilize my weight loss. He wants to see me in a month. I am supposed to see Dr. Rasmussen the next day.